Hardee County’s Planning and Zoning Board pushed forward Thursday proposed changes to a map that shows where phosphate may be mined.

The letter was mailed Tuesday to the Environmental Protection Agency. They claim the regulatory agency failed to respond to a petition three years ago calling for a revision in federal rules ...

Food security — the ability to supply enough people with enough food in the world — is a long-term problem. It’s also one with immediate challenges as one key ingredient in fertilizer faces a global ...

A change to Manatee County’s phosphate mining rules approved by commissioners on Tuesday will mean one less opportunity for the public to observe and weigh in on how the county regulates the industry.

A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on ...

The periodic table you may remember from chemistry class had two additional rows of elements below the main table. In the top added row are rare earth elements, metals critical in everyday ...

Ireland, like most of Europe, has no significant phosphate rock reserves. Every kilogram of phosphorus used on Irish farms is ...

A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on ...

Synthetic phosphate fertilizer poses a serious threat to our environment. Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A federal judge has yanked approval for a ...